. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for the family circle . the gratification of visitors, or per-haps more truly for the benefit of the steamboat company. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 235 This is a rattle-snake, and a dangerous fellow he is too; danger-ous not because he is naturally quarrelsome, but because he bitesin self-defence, and his bite is fatal. Whenany one approaches him, he tells them aswell as he can with his rattle to Look outfor snakes; if they discover him in sea-son, and get out of the way, well; but ifthey come too near, he gives a suddenspring and fixeshis deadly fangsup
. Forrester's pictorial miscellany for the family circle . the gratification of visitors, or per-haps more truly for the benefit of the steamboat company. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 235 This is a rattle-snake, and a dangerous fellow he is too; danger-ous not because he is naturally quarrelsome, but because he bitesin self-defence, and his bite is fatal. Whenany one approaches him, he tells them aswell as he can with his rattle to Look outfor snakes; if they discover him in sea-son, and get out of the way, well; but ifthey come too near, he gives a suddenspring and fixeshis deadly fangsupon them. People in vi-cinities wherethese reptilesare found haveto be very care-ful not to come in contact with them. Miles Hawthorne tells me that in placeswhere he has found them numerous, he has procured white ashboughs and sticks as a defence against them. He says they dreadthe ash as men do poison, and that he has seen them run over livingcoals of fire, rather than go over ash sticks, when they had beenencompassed by a circle made one half of Important Questions and Answers. WHO was the first President of the United States ? GeorgeWashington. Who is the present ? Franklin Pierce. Who will be the next ? Give it up ? So do I. Let us try some-thing else. What is the great key to the treasures of the English language ?WEBSTERS DICTIONARY. Right. Websters Dictionary unabridged is an invaluable treas-ure. It is as large as a common sized quarto Bible, with finerprint. Its definition of words is very exact, very extensive, and 236 PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. very happily expressed. From this teacher you need not turnaway in doubt. It contains a key by which you may easily learnthe pronunciation of words. In addition to the usual matter contained in dictionaries, it hasextensive pronouncing vocabularies of Scripture, Geographical andClassical I have no hesitation in declaring it the best dic-tionary of the English language which I have ever seen. And Ihad almost said, tha
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